{"id":1377,"date":"2004-07-13T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2004-11-05T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T07:00:08","slug":"a-bigger-taste-of-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"a bigger taste of Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nudged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mmk\/59637.html\">Madhu<\/a>, I watched <te>Once Upon a Time in India &#8212; or rather, <i>Sholay<\/i>.  (Sholay is not the name of a character or place in the story, but <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0073707\/\">I see<\/a> that the film has also been known as <i>Embers<\/i> or <i>Flames<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>I think this was my first Indian film.  I was amazed at the landscape (are we really expected to believe in a village of farmers on land consisting mostly of boulders?); surprised at the ubiquity of horses (I recall just one brief scene with a horseless carriage, and that not moving); intrigued at the number of English words audible; and disappointed that none of the songs are subtitled!<\/te><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nudged by Madhu, I watched Once Upon a Time in India &#8212; or rather, Sholay. (Sholay is not the name of a character or place in the story, but I see that the film has also been known as Embers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}